Malwarebytes Antimalware – MBAM

Malwarebytes Antimalware (often abbreviated to MBAM) is a very good malware detector and remover.

There is a free and a paid-for version, and they share the same installation program – so when you install it and run it for the first time it’ll ask you if you’d like to use the paid-for version (or, more likely, a free trial of it). You don’t have to – you can use the free version assuming that you’re using it on your own personal PC and are not using it commercially.

Installing MBAM

Installing is straight forward – no difficult questions to answer. Just accept all of the defaults when you run the installation program – it’ll copy the program to your PC and do the setup it needs, you just need to decide if you’d like to use the free or the paid-for “Pro” version towards the end.

These are the screens you’ll pass through as you install MBAM for the first time:

You don’t need the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium trial, so you can untick that before pressing Finish (assuming that you’re using it on your own personal PC and are not using it commercially)

Wait for the Updating database bar to finish, before pressing Scan Now

If you see the A new version of Malwarebytes is ready to be installed press OK and that’ll put you back to the beginning of these instructions, so start again

Once the update is finished, click Scan Now

The scan can take as long as an hour. Just let it keep going. You can use your PC while it works through the scan

Once the scan has finished, you’ll see a screen like this: click on Remove Selected

Updating MBAM

When you open MBAM, it will usually check to see if it’s using the latest version of the detection database. If it’s not, it’ll probably update automatically – but if it doesn’t you can always click Update Now:

Updating doesn’t take long – just a few seconds with a broadband connection.

Scanning with MBAM

click Scan Now

The scan can take as long as an hour. Just let it keep going. You can use your PC while it works through the scan

Once the scan has finished, you’ll see a screen like this: click on Remove Selected

After removing problems, you should reboot your PC and do another scan – perhaps a full scan, and repeat until clean.

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